Gloves coming off at Summit for Democracy: FDI, Current Account, Cross-border Data, Beidou Communication, WeChat Restriction, Special Weekend Edition of 6 December

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A Letter from the Editor:

This week’s Summit for Democracy will welcome more than 110 guests, in the notable absence of Beijing and Moscow. Not all of the world’s democracies are the US’s allies, and not all US’s allies are democracies. 

The Summit’s guest list does not present a neat cut as its name implies. How does the US treat its allies such as Saudi…